Mater squirmed in the sweet scent of Selina. He stretched his body while laying on top of the soft girl.

The black cat's eyes fluttered open. It smacked its lips a few times to lubricate its dry mouth.

It looked down to see the girl laying motionless with the open collar a little bit pulled down, revealing the blinding treasure underneath.

"Oh ho ho! Thanks for the meal."

The first thing Mater did in the morning was drenched his face into the wonderful pillows that were his human.

The sensation woke Selina up. She stretched lazily and looked down on the black cat on her chest.

"You naughty cat." Selina chuckled. She picked him up and sat up.

"A new day. A new adventure. We really have finished fifteen bounties in a few days." Selina pulled her shirt over her head. The strikingly round and beautiful tofu had Mater's eyeballs stuck to them.

The black cat drooled non-stop. "I wanna eat that so much..."

Selina picked him by the arms and placed him in the front, allowing him to be bathed in all of the tofu's greatest glory.

"This must be cat heaven." Mater purred loudly.

Selina rubbed his head and laughed. "You dirty cat. Let's shower."

"Meow?!" The word shower snapped him out of his blissfulness immediately.

"Noooooooooooooooooo!" The cat growled as Selina dragged him into the bathroom once more.

He became quite a bit dirty from all the fights. His fur had lost its shininess. Selina intended to fix that.

Mater was quickly covered in a godly amount of bubbles and soap. The cat sneezed loudly, sending all the bubbles to Selina.

The goth girl kept singing while bathing the cat.

Once the shower was over. She also brushed his teeth with a special brush that she could wear over her finger.

"I've never been defiled this much." Mater meowed as Selina put her finger around his teeth, brushing those sharp killing weapons.

She dried him off with a special cat-only hair-dryer that she just bought yesterday.

They soon became clean and fresh.

Selina brought Mater to the living room and let him sit on the sofa. She picked up the phone and checked if there's any news from the ACPD.

"Oh. They just finished documenting our bounties." Selina said.

"All fifteen of them?" Mater meowed.

"Two dangerous Menace level NCEs.

Two medium Menace level NCEs.

Two weak Menace level NCEs.

One ghost exorcism.

Eight false positives.

They gave us 12,500 credits and 76 tokens." Selina read aloud the rewards.

"That much? We should have no problem buying a motorcycle then." Mater meowed.

Previously, Selina had around 7,000 credits and 181 tokens. After the newest rewards, she had racked up her total wealth to 19,500 credits and 257 tokens.

She needed 500 tokens to reach Silver Hunter. She already made it half way there a few days after she got the Psychic Certificate.

"Let's check the Hunter Rankings and see how high you are." Mater grabbed Selina's phone.

His tiny paws couldn't use the phone so he just manipulated it directly using Chaos. The Hunter Rankings, a sub section of the Bounty Hunting Site showed up.

Hunter Rankings split between the level of Ankh Badge. Iron Rankings, Bronze Rankings, Silver Rankings, etc. These were the collection of rankings for every Bounty Hunter around the country, not just Aeliz City.

Selina had become a Bronze Hunter so she only showed up in the Bronze Rankings.

The site showed that she had entered the top 100 of the Bronze Rankings. She was currently placed in No.98.

"Number 98? Holy shit!" Selina blurted out.

"Woah! I didn't know you curse." Mater meowed.

Selina covered her mouth in response. She was too surprised and couldn't hold herself.

There were a lot of Bounty Hunters, also known as Paranormal Investigators, all around the country. This country had a total of 350 million people. Only less than 1% of them were Bounty Hunters.

According to the Bounty Hunting Site, there were around 100,000 registered hunters all across the country. Over 60% of them were Iron Rank.

At Bronze Rank, there were around 35,000 Hunters. This was why Selina was so surprised when she saw her profile in the top 100.

The pair took a closer look at the rankings. The people that could enter the top 100 all had more than 250 tokens.

"It's fortunate that the government censored all of our profiles. I can't believe what kind of attention I would get by simply entering this rankings alone." Selina said.

The black cat stroked his whiskers smugly. "All thanks to me."

Selina didn't know that her entry had caused quite a commotion in the Hunter Communities. For her, Bounty Hunting was simply a way to find the truth about her parents and to feed her hungry cat his favorite meals, the NCEs. But for other people, being a Bounty Hunter was fame, wealth, and influence.

Somewhere in another city, a group of high profiled bounty hunters were gearing up to start their hunting for today. They were the Atlas Seven, a group of power hungry Bounty Hunters.

Their leader, John Shaw, a Silver Hunter, was just putting on his suit when the secretary of the group knocked on the door.

"Yes?" John opened the door.

He had short blonde hair and was kept nicely to the side. However, that smile on his face was cold and fake. A smile of a psychopath. What emerged on the surface still reflected what was truly hiding underneath.

The secretary kept her eyes focused on the touch pad in her hands. "There is a new entry to the Bronze Rankings, sir."

"Which company is it?" John asked nonchalantly.

"We don't know."

John's brow furrowed deeply.

"However, we do know that it is a female investigator. Additionally, they rose in rankings very quickly and with almost a 100% successful rate."

"A lone investigator?"

"Probably. No one has heard of her yet. This indicates that she is at least a very capable warrior that can bypass the usual hunter formation."

"Send it to headquarters. Have people find out who she is."

"Already done that, Mr. Shaw." The secretary tapped on the digital touch pad.

In a night club somewhere else, a tall woman in a tight black dress was smoking her cigarette from a long smoking handle. A fur scarf wrapped around her neck.

A tall man in a black suit approached her and bowed before saying, "There is a new entry to the Bronze Rankings, ma'am."

"You wouldn't be here if they belong to some organization. An independent Investigator, I assume?" The woman asked.

"That's right, ma'am."

"Can you get their details?"

"We will try, ma'am. But what if they don't want to join us?"

"They will. After all, if they don't, that fucker will make them his slave. If they know what is best for them, they will join the Obscure Association."

The woman took a deep puff from her long cigarette holder and let out a cloud of white smoke in the air.

Around her were many people in tight black clothing. The music was banging non-stop and the light flickered to the beat, sending the night life vibe to all the patrons.

Up on the dance floor, people were dancing to the feel of neverending night life.

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